Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-08
The LATEST KILOGRAMS
GENERAL NOTES.

The prOhibitiOnists were defeated at
Atlanta Georgia on Saturday by major
ity estimated at 1000.
The Mississippi river was frozen over
at LIE Crosse, Wis, Monday. It has never
been known to freeze over SO early in the
season Def ore.
THE sentiment in New Brunswick is
against commercial union with this coun-
try, though friendly feeling is express
ed there toward the States.
DEPHTHERIA of very fatal character is
prevalent in Montreal. There were thir-
ty two deaths from the disease the past
week.
M. GAUNT, wealthy colored citizen of
Ohio, has donated $4,000 to the WILDER
force University, an institution for the
education of colored youth.
TYPHOID fever and diphtheria are
alarmingly prevalent in several Canadian
cities.
THE official canvass of the late Massa-
chusetts election places the pluralities
for the Republican candidates for State
offices at from II ,606 to 24,OCO.
THE New York State Court Of Appeals
has reversed the judgment of the local
court that tried, convicted and sentenced
Jacob Sharp, the New York boodler, and
he will have new trial.
The cheering announcement is made
by the president of large coal corpor-
ration that within fortnight, probably
within week, there will be reduction
of 81 per ton in the price of coal.
The official figures of the recent cleo
nnlr hot or;4
for division will not exceed 5000, and
only eight counties in the territory voted
against prohibition.
IT is runored that four judges of the
New York court of appeals are in favor
of setting aside the conviction of Jacob
Sharp, and that three are in favor of
affirming it.
A JUDICIAL decision has been rendered
which will prevent Pennsylvania coal
company from carrying out It's intention
to evict striking miners from their
homes.
Mr.. I. V. PowDERLY is collecting statis-
tics at New York, to be used by the
Knights of Labor in their argument to
induce the government to establish a
telegraph system of its own.
HERMAN SrREL1Tz, a reporter, who tes-
titled at New York Monday in favor of
Johann Most, confessed that he was a
socialist, and said he "did not believe
things as perjury"
AN incorporation license has been
issued to to the Peoria and Michigan
Railroad company, which will construct q
raad from Peoria, Illinois, to the state
line of Wisconsin. The capital stock of
the company is $3,00O,O0O, and the prin-
cipal business Office will be in this city.
IT is reported that the big gas wells
in the northwestern part of Ohio are
loosing their pressure and turning to oil
wells. The news has created consterna-
tion at Toledo, where natural gas is large
Iy used for heating purposes.
LINCOLN, Neb., is without Mayor and
City Council, the officials having surren-
dered themselves Monday to the United
States authorities, and being now in Jail.
They were fined for contempt Of court
last week in deposing Police Judge Par
sons.
The troubles in the sugar plantations
of Louisiana reached climax Wednes-
day morning. when a white picket
guard, on duty near Thibodeaux, was
fired upon. Two men we're wounded.
An attack was Immediately made on the
negroes, and ten men were killed; the
others hid in the woods.
A REPORT from Toledo, Ohio, states that
a gigantic scheme has been devised by the
Standard Oil company for the construc-
tioE of a grand trunk pipe line from New
York to Chicago, for the transportation
OF oil. It is said that the line of pipes,
connecting all the oil fields of Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio and Indiana, will be 1000
miles in length and cost 100000.